WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- No. 9 Massachusetts opened the week on Tuesday with a 6-2 win at Vermont
and then fell to No. 10 Quinnipiac in overtime on Saturday, 5-4. Maine and Providence upset the league’s
top ranked team in No. 3 UMass-Lowell on Tuesday and Friday, respectively. Boston University won a
overtime game on Tuesday at Harvard, 6-5, while Boston College downed Clarkson by a 6-5 score on
Friday as well.

James Marcou (Kings Park, N.Y.) notched five assists for his 100th career point on Tuesday in the
win in Burlington, while linemate Casey Wellman (Brentwood, Calif.) scored four points, including his
first career hat trick. Wellman also added two goals in the overtime loss at Quinnipiac.

Maine also scored a league-high 10 goals on Saturday night vs. ECAC foe St. Lawrence at the
Cumberland County Civic Center. Brian Flynn (Lynnfield, Mass.) and Tanner House (Cochrane, Alb.) each
had a league-high six points in two Black Bear wins during the week, including four and five points,
respectively, in the game vs. the Saints. Maine’s Scott Darling (Lemont, Ill.) stopped a total of 44 shots
on 46 shots (.957 save%) on the week.

BU’s Chris Connolly (Duluth, Minn.) had a strong effort on the weekend with the overtime gamewinner
at Harvard on Tuesday and the game-tying tally with 51 seconds remaining on Saturday night at
Madison Square Garden in the 3-3 stalemate with Cornell in New York City.

Providence earned a 4-2 win vs. the River Hawks at Tsongas Arena on Friday, as sophomore goalie
Alex Beaudry (Cumberland, Ont.) notched 30 saves in his sixth win of the season.

Vermont edged Northeastern in a close game on Friday night at Matthews Arena and New Hampshire
earned its fifth league win of the year to remain in first place with a victory on Saturday at Lawler
Arena. Vermont sophomore goalie Rob Madore (Pittsburgh, Pa.) made 28 saves in his third win of the
season for the Catamounts. Freshman forward David Pacan (Ottawa, Ont.) notched a goal in each game
for UVM.

BC went 4-for-9 on the power in their win on Friday vs. the Golden Knights. Four different Eagles
notched two points apiece in their second non-league win of the season.

Mark Nemec, Maine (Rouses Point, N.Y.)
Picked up his first career point with an assist on Friday against UMass Lowell

Wade MacLeod, NU (COQUITLAM, B.C.)
Scored his 70th career point (29g,41a) in Friday’s loss to Vermont

James Marcou, UMass (Kings Park, N.Y.)
and Casey Wellman (Brentwod, Calif.)
Have combined for 18 points in the last four games
Wellman (6g,2a), Marcou (1g,9a)

James Marcou, UMass
Scored his 100th career point in the win over Vermont
with a school record five assists

Merrimack’s power play
Netted a goal for the 10th straight game vs. UNH on Saturday

Jake Newton, NU (San Jacinto, Calif.)
Has logged an assist in each of his last three games

UNH’s top line of Butler, Phil DeSimone (EAST AMHERST, N.Y.)
and Paul Thompson (DERRY, N.H.)
Have a combined 21 points (10g,11a) in the last three games

UNH’s offense
Has scored three or more goals in seven-straight games,
including four games of four or more in that span

Alex Velischek, PC (Kinnelon, N.J.)
Scored his first career goal on Tuesday against UMass Lowell

COMMISSIONERS CORNER with Joe Bertagna

All of us who work daily in college hockey were pleased by last
week’s announcement that Paul Kelly has accepted a new position as
Executive Director of College Hockey Inc. Two questions that came up
at the time of the announcement were: why the need for this position
and why now? The job of marketing college hockey has fallen primarily
to the commissioners of the six Division I conferences, with the NCAA
Office doing its part in conjunction with the national championships. While
the commissioners have gladly assumed such duties, they have always
been second to our immediate responsibility to serve our leagues. While
we couldn’t wake up each morning and think about promoting college
hockey in a generic way as our first order of business that day, we now
have someone who can.

That we need to do this now stems partly from a need to respond
to a more aggressive recruiting strategy implemented in recent
years by junior hockey interests in Canada. Some of this includes our
need to respond to wildly inaccurate information being published and
distributed both in Canada and here. Some of this has to do with the
changing landscape of where players come from in the United States.
Increasingly, there are talented players being produced in areas where
college hockey is not a presence. Just look at the 42 Californians who
played NCAA Division I hockey last year. And there were 10 Texans on
D-1 rosters too.

As for the timing, college hockey will receive resources from USA
Hockey, initiated by the National Hockey League, that makes the establishment
of an office and staff possible this season. We look forward
to seeing the profile of our game raised to new heights in the coming
months.

THIS WEEK IN HOCKEY EAST HISTORY

Dec. 2, 2000: UMass Lowell plays the first 0-0 game in the
school’s 34-year hockey history when the River Hawks and fifthranked
New Hampshire are both shut down at the Whittemore
Center in Durham, N.H. Junior Cam McCormick stops 29 shots
to record the shutout for UMass Lowell.

Dec. 5, 1992: Paul Kariya became the first Black Bear to
dish out five assists in a game against a Division I opponent
when he assisted on five goals in Maine’s 11-2 win over Northeastern
on

TEAM NOTES

Boston College: BC matched its season high with four powerplay
goals in Friday’s 6-5 home win over Clarkson. The Eagles previously
scored four power-play goals (in five chances) in a 4-4 tie at New
Hampshire (Nov. 6). It has score multiple man-advantage tallies five of
11 games this season...BC has scored four or more goals six times in
11 games and is 5-0-1 in those games. The team is averaging 3.82
goals per game, a mark good for third in Hockey East and sixth in the
nation...Friday’s 6-5 home win over Clarkson snapped a 10-game losing
streak against the Golden Knights dating back to Jan. 21, 1991 an
8-5 win inside Conte Forum...Carl Sneep ranks second on the team in
scoring and tied for fifth among all defenseman in college hockey with
12 points (5g,7a)...Junior center Brian Gibbons (Braintree, Mass.) has a
team-high 10 assists in 11 games...Senior alternate captain Ben Smith
(Avon, Conn.) has nine goals in 11 games (0.82 goals per game), ranking
eighth among national leaders in that category.

Boston University: Despite their 4-7-2 record, the Terriers are
undefeated in their last three games (1-0-2) and 2-1-2 in their last five
contests…Sophomore goaltender Grant Rollheiser held Cornell scoreless
for the final 34:30 of Saturday’s Red Hot Hockey contest and is 3-0-3 in
his last six decisions…The contest against Cornell at sold-out Madison
Square Garden was the first time all season that BU did not have a player
miss the game due to injury…Junior Nick Bonino has eight points (2g,
6a) in the five games since he returned from injury and the team is now
34-0-5 in the last 39 games he has scored at least one point…Nine
different Terriers have scored a power-play goal this season and six
have recorded two or more…Special teams have accounted for 18 of
BU’s 37 goals this season…BU will begin a four-game homestand that
stretches until Jan. 2 when it welcomes Vermont and Boston College to
Agganis Arena this weekend…Friday’s game against the Catamounts
will be a rematch of last year’s national semifinal.

Maine: Maine exploded for 10 goals in a 10-1 win over St. Lawrence on
Saturday night at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland… It was
the most goals for the Black Bears since beating Nebraska-Omaha 11-0
on Feb. 27, 1998…Maine scored a season-high five power play goals
on Saturday against St. Lawrence as it finished the game 5-for-8 with
the man advantage…The Black Bears finished the weekend 6-for-11 on
the power play…Maine has defeated three teams this season that were
ranked in the top-10 when they played the Black Bears…Sophomore
Gustav Nyquist scored his 50th career point on Saturday against St.
Lawrence. Nyquist has 53 career points in 52 games…Seventeen different
Black Bears scored at least one point on the weekend…Six of Maine’s
top seven scorers have scored three of more power play goals on the
season…Sophomore Brian Flynn (Lynnfield, Mass.) scored a career-high
five points on Saturday against St. Lawrence with two goals and three
assists…Five different Black Bears finished with three or more points on
the weekend, including Tanner House and Brian Flynn (Lynnfield, Mass.)
who each chipped in with six points in the two games.

Massachusetts: UMass is now 3-1-0 against ranked teams after the
loss at #9 Quinnipiac and 4-1-0 in road games…Seven of UMass’ next
10 games will be on the road…With the come-from-behind rally at Quinnipiac,
UMass is now outscoring teams 19-to-7 in the third period…The
loss at Quinnipiac was just the fourth time in 71 games that UMass
lost when scoring four-or-more goals…UMass ranks 4th nationally in
scoring offense (3.92 gpg) and 3rd in power play conversion (16-for-
56, 28.6%)…after going 4-for-12 on the power play in its previous two
games, UMass was 0-for-1 against Quinnipiac…since the 2005-06
season, Boston College holds a 6-5-1 edge over UMass, the all-time
series is 39-10-3 in favor of the Eagles…In that same stretch, UMass
Lowell is 7-3-2 against UMass with the all-time record 28-18-6 in favor
of the River Hawks…Boston College and UMass Lowell will be the fourth
and fifth straight ranked opponents that UMass has faced.

UMass-Lowell: The third-ranked UMass Lowell River Hawks (8-4-1,
4-3-1 HE) struggled, dropping two Hockey East contests to Providence
and Maine last week… The River Hawks’ third place ranking in the USCHO
and USA Today college hockey polls tied the program’s previous high
set on Jan. 14, 2002… The week’s two losses snapped UMass Lowell’s
eleven-game streak of scoring three or more goals a game… Senior
Kory Falite (Billerica, Mass.) scored the River Hawks’ lone tally against
Maine, landing him on the doorstep of 50 career goals as he is just two
away… Senior defenseman Nick Schaus (Buffalo, NY) is tied for fifth in
the nation for point-per-game (1.09) by defensemen…After making a
season-high 37 saves at Providence, senior goaltender Carter Hutton
(Thunder Bay, Ont.) is 18th in the nation in GAA (2.29) and 19th in save
percentage (.918)…In six home dates, UMass Lowell has drawn 28,678
fans for an average of 4,780 per game, the most since the opening of
the Tsongas Arena in 1997-98…The River Hawks will have a chance to
bounce back this weekend, traveling to UNH on Friday, before returning
home to face UMass on Saturday.

Merrimack: Merrimack suffered its first loss in seven home games
this year, falling to University of New Hampshire 5-4 Saturday afternoon…
Dating back to last season, the Warriors are 9-3-1 in their last
13 home games, with two of the losses to the Wildcats…Saturday’s
game featured the second straight sellout at Lawler Arena…Ten different
forwards notched a point in the loss, including senior Justin Bonitatibus
(Walpole, Mass.) who has goals in two straight games…Joe Cannata
(Wakefield, Mass.) made his second straight start, breaking the rotation
with Andrew Braithwaite (Kingston, Ont.). The two had alternated starts
in the first 11 games…Stephane Da Costa (Paris, France) extended
his point streak to seven games and has points in eight of 10 games
this year. Da Costa continues to lead the country in points per game
for rookies with 1.60…The Warriors have potted at least three goals in
10 straight games and are tied for the conference lead with 3.92 goals
per game…Merrimack’s power play and penalty kill are both ranked
second in Hockey East, while its combined special teams percentage
of 58.2% is second nationally…The Warriors play their final home game
until January 23 this Friday against Northeastern. Following Friday’s
game, they will play seven straight on the road.

New Hampshire: UNH’s top line of Bobby Butler, Phil DeSimone and
Paul Thompson have 21 points (10g,11a) in the last three games...New
Hampshire is 4-0-1 in its last five games and sits alone atop the Hockey
East standings for the first time this season... With a 5-6-3 mark through
November, the Wildcats have an identical record to 2008-09 squad that
qualified for the NCAA tournament...Bobby Butler has 13 points (8g, 5a)
in a seven-game scoring streak with eight goals and five assists. Butler
is tied for the nation’s lead in goals with 12. He is tied with Canisius’
Cory Conacher and Ferris State’s Blair Riley...Blake Kessel, with a pair
of assists on Saturday, became the league leader and is tied for the
nation’s lead in defensemen assists with 12...The Wildcat offense has
scored three or more goals in seven-straight games, including four
games of four or more in that span...Paul Thompson has eight points
(5g, 3a) in the last three games and with 14 points (7g,7a) has already
set a career benchmark for goals, assists and points...The UNH power
play has scored four times in the last three games...Phil DeSimone
has seven points (2g,5a) during his current four-game scoring streak,
including goals in back-to-back games...Saturday’s five goals at Lawler
Arena is the most by a UNH squad since Feb. 16, 2005.

Northeastern: Senior forward Kyle Kraemer broadened his pointstreak
to a team-best six games with his team-leading fifth goal in a
3-2 loss against Vermont on Friday night. The St. Louis native is also
riding a four-game goal scoring streak heading into this weekend’s
home-and-home series against Merrimack...Freshman Jake Newton
has accounted for an assist in his last three contests while classmate
Justin Daniels tipped in his third-career goal in Friday’s game against
the Catamounts...Sophomore defenseman Drew Muench turned in his
first-career two-assist game against Vermont on Friday night. The last
time Muench secured a pair of points was a two-goal effort against
the Catamounts on Jan. 19, 2008...The Huskies had their four-game
powerplay-scoring streak halted against Vermont, going 0-4 on the extra
man. On the flipside, freshman Drew Ellement’s hooking call proved to be
the only infraction on Northeastern all night, marking a season low.

Providence College: Providence College’s win over No. 3 UMass
Lowell was its seventh of the season, already matching last season’s win
total…In that win, senior Mark Fayne recorded a career-high four points
and three assists. Fayne, who has 11 points (3 g, 8 a) this season, is
one point shy of equaling his career high…The win over No. 3 UMass
Lowell also marked the highest ranked opponent that PC has beaten
since a 4-2 triumph at No. 2 BU on January 13, 2009…The Friars,
who recorded one win over a ranked team last season, have already
defeated three ranked teams in 2009-10…PC completed a stretch on
five games in 11 days with a 4-2 loss at Dartmouth on Friday…The Friars
finished their non-conference schedule with a 5-2 mark, their best nonconference
record since the 2003-04 season when they posted a 9-3-1
mark…The Friars are 3-1-1 at Schneider Arena this season…Junior Matt
Germain (Rockland, Mass.) has recorded at least one point in four of
the last five games…PC has outshot its opponents in three consecutive
games, including 47 shots against Dartmouth on Friday.

Vermont: The Catamounts improved to 9-3-4 against Northeastern
since joining Hockey East in Friday’s 3-2 win…The loss was just the
fifth in the last 23 home games for the Huskies and two of those losses
are against the Catamounts…Vermont is 5-0 this season when holding
its opponent scoreless on the power play…The Catamounts have out
scored their opponents 26-23 at even strength but have been outscored
16-6 in special teams situations…Only Alabama-Huntsville (4) has scored
few power-play goals than Vermont (5) this season…The Catamounts
have outscored their opponents 26-24 in the first two periods but have
been outscored 15-6 in the final 20 minutes...Vermont plays eight of
its next nine games at home…According to the College Hockey News
KRACH Ratings the Catamounts have played the sixth toughest schedule
in the country and the most difficult schedule of any Hockey East
team…Vermont plays three games in the next seven days beginning with
a rematch of last season’s NCAA Tournament first round game against
Yale on Monday at Gutterson Fieldhouse…The Catamounts defeated the
Bulldogs 4-1 in the East Regional in Bridgeport, Conn., last March.